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1. 1.		Universe Today http://www.universetoday.com Recent: Final Construction Starts for Europe’s 2016 Methane Sniffing Mars Mission The European/Russian ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) will launch in 2016 and sniff the Martian atmosphere …	Science Auth: 946

2. 2.		The Daily Galaxy --Great… http://www.dailygalaxy.com Recent: Outer Space Mystery --"The Missing Oxygen Molecule"                A 2012 search for molecular oxygen in the Orion Nebula came up negative, leading to new …	Science Auth: 920

3. 3. moved up 3 places		Next Big Future http://nextbigfuture.com/ Recent: Google's Billion connection deep learning neural net that was $1 million in hardware last year can be built with $20,000 in GPUs this year You can now build a 1-billion-connection model with $20,000 worth of hardware. It opens up the world for …	Science Auth: 864 Change +27 Top 100 green

4. 4. moved down -1 places		NASA Image of the Day (Large) http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery Recent: An Astronaut's View from Station A view of Earth as seen from the Cupola on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station. Visible …	Science Auth: 862

5. 5. moved down -1 places		Not Even Wrong http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress Recent: Farewell to Reality Jim Baggott has written a very good new book called Farewell to Reality that will soon come out here in …	Science Auth: 860 Change +2

6. 6. moved down -2 places		NASASpaceFlight.com http://www.nasaspaceflight.com Recent: NASA told to slow down CRS payment schedule for Orbital’s cargo runs NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a report that recommends the Agency should slow down …	Science Auth: 857 Change -1

7. 7.		The Reference Frame http://motls.blogspot.com Recent: All proofs in natural and social sciences ultimately depend on probabilities Mel B. has sent me a link pointing to a rather incredible attack by an economics professor on the statistical …	Science Auth: 811 Top 100 green

8. 8. moved up 11 places		ChandraBlog - Fresh Chandra … http://chandra.harvard.edu/blog/ Recent: Black Hole Bonanza Turns up in Galaxy Next Door Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have been used to discover 26 black hole candidates in the Milky …	Science Auth: 753 Change +82

9. 9. moved down -1 places		Science-Based Medicine http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org Recent: More bad science in the service of anti-GMO activism I never used to write much about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) before. I still don’t do it that often. …	Science Auth: 750 Change -1 Top 100 health

10. 10. moved down -1 places		Singularity Hub http://singularityhub.com Recent: US Supreme Court Says Synthetic Genes Are Patentable, Naturally Occurring Genes Are Not Technology has always ridden far out ahead of the laws that govern it. As the pace accelerates, that gap …	Science Auth: 743